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Local Research Ethics Committees

Find a full list of authorised Local Research Ethics Committees (LRECs) at UCL.

To support our work to reform research ethics at UCL, the Research Innovation and Global Engagement Committee (RIGEC) has approved a new governance structure.

From April 2024 a new LREC Chairs group will be established for the 24 Local Research Ethics Committees (LRECs) operating in faculties and departments, to facilitate the sharing of best practice and developing consistent approaches to emerging ethical issues

Please contact ethics@ucl.ac.uk if you would like to explore establishing an LREC in your department. 

Approved LRECs by Faculty


Arts and Humanities

Faculty of Arts and Humanities LREC
School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) LREC
  • Chair: Anne White (anne.white@ucl.ac.uk)
  • Further information: Information for applicants is included on the BA and MA dissertation Moodle pages and in the SSEES Almanac (for lecturers and PhD students)

The Bartlett

Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) LREC
Development Planning Unit LREC
Institute for Global Prosperity LREC
Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) LREC
School of Planning LREC
Sustainable Construction LREC

Brain Sciences

Division of Psychology and Language Sciences (PaLS) LREC

The PaLS LREC reviews and approves low risk ethics applications for research with adult participants (18+) submitted by UCL staff PIs or postdoctoral researchers. All other applications should be submitted to the UCL Research Ethics Service for review.

Engineering

Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (CEGE) LREC
Computer Science LREC

Applications for review and related queries should be sent to cs.rec@ucl.ac.uk.

School of Management LREC
Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP) LREC
Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (MPBE) LREC

Applications for review by this LREC should be sent to medphys.ethics@ucl.ac.uk (not individual email addresses).

 Institute of Education (IOE)

IOE LREC

Laws

Faculty of Laws LREC

Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MAPS)

Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR) LREC

The IRDR LREC reviews and approves low-risk ethics applications for undergraduate and master’s research. PhD applications should be submitted to the UCL Research Ethics Service for review.

Population Health Sciences (FPHS)

Institute of Health Informatics LREC
Institute for Women's Health LREC

Life Sciences

Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
School of Pharmacy

Social and Historical Sciences (SHS)

Anthropology LREC
SHS LREC (Economics, Geography, History of Art, Institute of Americas, and Institute of Advanced Studies)
History LREC
Institute of Archaeology LREC
Political Science LREC (Social and Historical Sciences)